The ‘Project of the Year: Small Office over €500,000’ award at the Fit Out Awards 2017, and ‘Building of the Year: Small Office Project 2017’ award at the Building and Architect of the Year Awards 2017. Congratulations to our project team.

From the citation: “...very strong submission, an example of high quality fit out design, creating an individual and unique sense of place.”

The project provides a collaborative space to in-spire staff and clients alike to develop new ideas and ground-breaking technologies. The layout promotes various types of working: focused and collaborative, refuge, team, enclave and community working. There is a strong focus on sustain-ability with many of the materials salvaged or reclaimed.

Reddy Architecture + Urbanism has won the ‘Project of the Year: Healthcare’ category at the Fit Out Awards 2017. Congratulations to our de-sign team, which brought together our expertise in healthcare and interior design.

Ferndene, an addition to an existing nursing home, comprises 29 bedrooms and new dining and lounge areas. It creates the ambience of home rather than an institution, with natural colours, good daylight and extensive views to the outside.

Our client’s comment: “Reddy Architecture... created a superb scheme for our nursing home... contemporary and luxurious...a scheme that is unique when benchmarked against other nursing home and healthcare facilities in Ireland.”

Reddy Architecture + Urbanism’s proposals for the refurbishment, extension and redevelopment of the Metropole Hotel in Cork have been lodged with Cork City Council for planning permission.

The €50 million project will bring the hotel to ‘4 star plus’ standard, with the addition of 140 bed-rooms and 43 suites to the 112 existing rooms, a function room and terrace at roof level, a garden court at lobby level and shop units to both the McCurtain Street and St.Patrick’s Quay frontages. A complementary hotel, the M Hotel, will be built alongside the Metropole and linked to it by glass bridges at roof and intermediate levels. Upon completion, the hotel complex, with 400 rooms and a floor area of more than 22,000 m², will be the largest hotel complex in Cork.

During his recent visit to Ireland with his wife Camilla, Prince Charles visited Reddy Architecture + Urbanism’s new Palliative Care Unit at Our Lady’s Hospice in Harold’s Cross, Dublin, The unit provides end-of-life care for terminally ill patients and their families in 36 single-bed family bedrooms with support facilities.

The client commented: ‘The recent visit by HRH Prince Charles is testament to the high quality and standards achieved...a highly efficient, sustainable and pleasant working and care environment which was very well received by staff and patients alike’

Phase 1 of the project, with 24 bedrooms, was completed in November 2016 and was delivered in BIM Level 2 through all stages.

We are very pleased to have received from An Bord Pleanala planning permission for phases 1 and 2 of our student housing scheme at University College Dublin’s Belfield Campus. This is the first such permission to be granted nationally under the government’s new Strategic Housing Development (SHD) process, designed to accelerate delivery of large-scale strategic housing schemes.

The development will ultimately provide 3,000 bedspaces in seven buildings of between five and ten storeys arranged around courtyards and linked by pedestrian walkways integrating the new buildings with the existing residences and academic buildings on campus. Activity hubs are located at key nodes, providing amenity and study space for residents and creating a living campus community.

The project is due to start in early 2018 with the first phase due for completion in early 2020.

UCD student housing wins Ireland’s first SHD permission

New Mill student residences now open

January 2018

Our 400-bed New Mill student housing development, located in in Mill Street in Dublin’s historical Liberties area, received its first residents last September and is already making a positive impact in this formerly neglected area centred on the public space of Newmarket.

One of several planned developments designed by Reddy Architecture + Urbanism in or around Newmarket and the first of these to open, New Mill is already contributing to the rejuvenation of the area and to Newmarket as a lively public space. Other developments designed by Reddy Architecture + Urbanism will add apartment, office, hotel, retail and market uses, enhancing the area in economic and social terms.

Tony Reddy and Tim Pettigrew of Reddy A+U will be at MIPIM 2018 in Cannes. If you are looking for a reli-able partner with expertise in all aspects of the built environment please contact us to arrange a meeting.

Tony is founder and chairman of the Reddy group of seven offices and a network of international affiliates. Tim is leader of the London office, from where, in addition to the UK market, we also provide services to our clients in Europe and North America.

The company has an established reputation in urban design and in award-winning residential-based mixed-use developments such as Temple Bar West End and the Heuston South Quarter in Dublin. Recent major project wins in other sectors include over 5,000 student residential units, nine office developments and seven hotels.

Our London office is growing to service major projects such as Embassy Gardens for Ballymore, Kidbrooke Village for Berkeley and new projects in the commercial office market.

Cork City Council has issued a notification of decision to grant permission for the €160 million urban renewal development at Horgan’s Quay in Cork’s by Clarendon Properties and BAM Ireland.

Reddy Architecture + Urbanism designed the residential element of the scheme, creating a brickclad high-quality design in four blocks, ranging in height from seven to eleven storeys and providing for retail and commercial uses at ground floor level.

The €160 million ‘HQ’ development will provide 230 apartments, a 136-bed hotel, 37,000 m2 of offices and new retail, restaurant and leisure uses. It also provides 4,000 m2 of new public space adjoining the river Lee and forming a new approach to the city’s main railway station.

It is noteworthy that none of the conditions of the proposed permission refer to the architectural design, materials, scale, height or bulk of the pro-posed buildings, the result of a positive interaction with Cork City Council planners and architects in the pre-planning stage.

Horgan’s Quay: notification of decision to grant permission

March 2018

Service commencement has now been achieved on seven of the fourteen Primary Care Centres for which Reddy Architecture + Urbanism have been Technical Adviser Architect and TA Team Leader since May 2013.

The project is a PPP development by the HSE for centres at locations throughout the country. The centres range in size from approximately 1,500 m2 to 5,000 m2 gross floor area. Remaining centres are expected to be handed over and be operational in the course of 2018.